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Are/Were There Any Attempts to Fan-Remake DNF?
"To make it more based on the 1998/2001 trailers."

I know there was the DNF 2013 mod for Duke Nukem 3D, but is there any other attempts known? It would be interesting to see a community of fans re-write the basic plot of DNF and program a game based in the Quake 2 engine or whatever. Also, leave down your own plot ideas for DNF, but still following the basic themes of the official versions.

With DNF, everyone seems to be concentrated on the earlier 2000 era version. It would be very possible to do a version of that in EDuke with Polymer. You just use the dynamic lights with Q2 style models.

That would be really neat. DNF 2013 was great but it can't shake the feeling of being what it is, a Duke Nukem 3D mod the whole way through. If you used what Polymer is capable of you could get a lot closer and even surpass what DNF 1998/2001 did (avoiding the dynamic lighting that made the game really dark had them start the game over is probably best.)

For a while, id did a really good job of avoiding the use of middleware, and that had the effect of involving formats that weren't widely supported or documented. With RAGE, DOOM 3 BFG, and DOOM 2016 that stance was thrown out the window, but looking back, other than using Paul Radek's horrible DMX library for sound for id Tech 1, a decision Carmack later regretted, for a long time all of their stuff was in-house. id Tech 4 didn't get used for very many projects that id wasn't also involved with (other than Prey, what other 3rd party games using the engine were there?) Perhaps that had the effect of making md5mesh even more obscure a format than id's previous mesh formats like md3 that debuted with id Tech 3 which is far more widely supported.

We released the Blender source files for the HRP Duke model. It's a shame that MD5 is such a pain in the arse to work with.

That's actually the very same model I was trying to get in-game. However, now that I've modified the system so that it rotates the player model's chest rather than interpolating between a series of 'up', 'down' and 'forward' versions of each animation, I might be able to put the model in there without changes (aside from separating the head)

And well, BFG Edition (idTech 4.5) and the original engine (idTech 4) are open-source, so there's nothing really stopping me from adding another model format

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This post has been edited by TheZombieKiller: 11 September 2016 - 09:32 PM

Doom 3 is a brilliant game. Even though it's the first real 'next-gen' game, it still looks damn good, and with the Sikkmod and texture replacements, it can look as good, if not better, than some modern titles.

MD5 isn't a bad format in and of itself (I have fixed problems with a text editor, which you can't say about a lot of formats ;-) ) . The problem is that the exporter for MD5 for Blender was written with a lot of rules that are hard to follow. It demands that all the movement bones be on one level and the driver bones be on another layer. The problem being that it can't decide which are which, resulting in playing musical levels with the bones in the rig till you decide 'Sod this!' and walk away. Either that or you try and remember how to do stuff in an ancient version of Blender that is akin to trying to build the Bismark with a stone axe. If you use Max, you have to use an ancient version, or compile the exporter for the version you are using.

Doom 3 is a brilliant game. Even though it's the first real 'next-gen' game, it still looks damn good, and with the Sikkmod and texture replacements, it can look as good, if not better, than some modern titles.

MD5 isn't a bad format in and of itself (I have fixed problems with a text editor, which you can't say about a lot of formats ;-) ) . The problem is that the exporter for MD5 for Blender was written with a lot of rules that are hard to follow. It demands that all the movement bones be on one level and the driver bones be on another layer. The problem being that it can't decide which are which, resulting in playing musical levels with the bones in the rig till you decide 'Sod this!' and walk away. Either that or you try and remember how to do stuff in an ancient version of Blender that is akin to trying to build the Bismark with a stone axe. If you use Max, you have to use an ancient version, or compile the exporter for the version you are using.

I'm finaly playing Doom 3 lol... Back in the days it was too much for my Geforce 4200 ti : D I like it so far. I'm in the hell levels (guess not much left). Reminds me a little of DNF errors compared to it's predecessor. Wonder how reviewers didn't complain that much about Doom 3...

This post has been edited by EvilEmperorZoRG {GR}: 12 September 2016 - 01:07 PM

Plenty of people complained about it, really. But not near as much as DNF. I thought it was great but it wasn't a shootemup like classic Doom. But I never expected it to be. It screamed survival horror FPS from the moment I looked at the box cover. I don't know what everyone was expecting.

It was supposed to be a survival horror, and despite some problems, worked pretty well as that. Graphically, the game was light-years ahead of anything else out there. The game was used as a graphics benchmark for years after it was released.